"We heal together, but...slower for how we are and are not tended." One needs the other's aid, and so on and so forth; they heal faster than humans do, but can aggravate one another's wounds. A complicated situation, to be sure, and one that she's still kicking herself for not telling McCoy about in advance. "But it's so; there was no such attempt on my life. My brother is near - I felt him, for just a moment when we were struck, I felt him - but he is yet beyond me."

She considers, then presses her hands together. "It's prudent to allow the city to believe otherwise."